Icemageddon prep...

I had just moved to a suburb of Boston with a new Audi equipped with summer tyres. On the morning after the first decent snowfall of the season I had to meet my company Chairman for brunch on Sunday. We had worked together in a previous business, and had similar views on entertaining/being entertained -- "just leave me alone will you".

So he asked what what I would be doing if he wasn't there, my answer was that I would take my new car to the parking lot of our US agents and throw it around a bit to see if I needed buy winter tyres and narrow wheels. I knew that the place would have been plowed, and no-one except contracted supplier's embedded personnel with revenue streams to enhance (ie me) would be working at the weekend. So we went there and after throwing it around a bit I decided it didn't need winter tyres.

Next time I was at our HQ in England I noticed that his previous Lancia Beta Coupe had been replaced with an Audi Coupe like mine. Difference was that in the UK at my level the company provided the car, in the USA you paid for your own. Did a bit of ice-racing still on summer tyres on frozen lakes in New Hampshire and it was quick -- felt horrible though. But quick gets the prizes 👍